Spreading the Word on Modern Cyber Threats The PC Matic team travels frequently for various channel and partner events, and this quarter was no exception. Our CEO, Rob Cheng, had the honor of presenting the keynote address at this year’s Interface conference in Dallas to over 200 attendees. In addition, Rob also presented for the […]
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A View From the Top Juniper Research, out of the UK, estimates that worldwide cybercrime will reach $2 trillion in 2019. Cybersecurity Ventures, an American research firm, estimates that same number will grow to $6 trillion in 2021. That’s more than the entire economy of the United Kingdom. The first modern day ransomware struck in
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100% of Revenues Going to Project Meet Me Halfway Have you heard of Giving Tuesday? It’s the Tuesday after Cyber Monday, which is meant to focus on giving back to organizations or your community. The idea is pretty wonderful, considering the days leading up to it are full of buying the latest gadgets for friends,
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After two malicious apps made it to “trending” status, Google realized they had a major issue… This week, Google removed 13 driving-themed games from their Play Store after determining they were riddled with malware. Unfortunately, that wasn’t until after they had been downloaded over half a million times. An initial warning was issued about the
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60 Million Users Exposed Due to USPS’s Overlooked Security Breach The United States Postal Service (USPS) just fixed a security vulnerability that previously allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com, to view account details for approximately 60 million other users. What is worse is, in some cases, users were able to access and modify account
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It’s always been clear criminals of any kind typically don’t follow, or even have, a moral compass. There are the “really bad” criminals, that do things warranting a life sentence. And then there are the “slap on the wrist” criminals who have minor legal infractions and pay a fine or do community service to wipe their
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Major Security Breach Leaves Thousands of Patients Exposed Inova Health Systems, a non-profit health organization based in Falls Church, Virginia, was hit with a security breach in September 2018. This breach potentially impacted over 12,000 patients in six different medical facilities. The parent company, Valley Health, has sent letters to potentially impacted patients. How Did It Happen?
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With input from our users, we have made several improvements to the Blocked Status Info tab that was added earlier this year. We want this tab to be as useful as possible with all of the information and action in it that you need. Default view now loads with only Uknown applications. This gives you
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BlackBerry Spends $1.4B to Acquire Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence Firm, Cylance The ex-smartphone mogul, BlackBerry has made some significant changes of focus over the last five years. Going from a smartphone giant and hardware developer, to making the sharp turn into cyber security. According to CNBC, over the last few years BlackBerry has
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PC Matic Awarded Best IT Anti-Malware Solution by American Security Today PC Pitstop, the makers of PC Matic were awarded the Gold ASTORS Award for the Best IT Anti-Malware Solution by American Security Today earlier this week, in New York City. American Security Today’s 2018 ASTORS Homeland Awards Presentation Luncheon at ISC East was an overwhelming success.
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